Living Stones and the twists and turns of life

My first blog for my new website! I’ve been excited to see the website taking shape, vigorous discussions with Kyra taking place about what should and shouldn’t be put onto the pages. I think it looks so good. Don’t you?

For this first communication with you, I thought I’d share a little about why some of the different facets of the website were used.

Such as the gemstones on the home page. It may of course seem to be reflecting the I Am Beryl books, but as I have pondered on Beryl, I came to see something quite amazing.

The paths of our lives seem so random, quite different to what we envisaged as teenagers, or when we were planning our future in our early 20’s. And nothing went the way we expected.

As I looked back over my life, filled with full stops, random seemingly no exit roads, bumps, curves, twists, mountainous experiences and very low valleys, I started to see a common thread.

When I was about 10, I became fascinated with rock collecting – they call these youngsters Pebble Puppies. An older couple befriended me and introduced me to these pretty shiny stones and gave them names. Over time as happens with children, that fascination faded.

And then in 2011 the time came to write my first book. It was called “The Twisted Tree” which was later rewritten as 25 To Life. As I held this manuscript up to the Lord, I saw a myriad of multiple-coloured stones falling from Heaven onto it. I had no grid, no understanding of what I was seeing. It wasn’t until I wrote In The Beginning – I Am Beryl, that I understood. For there in that book was my love of all the beauty of the coloured gems. And do you want to know something more fascinating? A Beryl stone is the same family as emeralds.

The six different types of beryl include aquamarine, bixbite, emerald, goshenite, heliodor, and morganite.

Look them up – they are gorgeous!

Now I know that our seemingly random paths are not random at all. We are guided by our lovely heavenly Father. From a 10-year-old’s fascination with stones, to a young woman not wanting a diamond engagement ring; looking in jewelers windows at the multi coloured gems, and then to now.

Now we are the living stones, the precious ones.